i think the november 5 multi-bomb is a good idea.
The idea of a money bomb is to generate a newsworthy event. The recent string of money bombs has left our wallets perpetually bombed out, resulting in mediocre and increasingly non-newsworthy results. Clumping them together on a single day can change that.
If we raise over a million dollars on a single day for liberty candidates all across the country, that will be news. For example, rand's press release and the resulting news articles could say that rand raised over $200k in a single day as part of a "mass money bomb event" that raised over a million dollars for liberty candidates across the country.
That certainly sounds better than another press release saying that rand raised another $200k on a single day, period. Yawn. Been there, done better.
Wouldn't it be great to have major news articles saying that the ron paul supporters are running liberty candidates all across the country? (the media's going to have to figure out what to call us. I'm personally rooting for the term "liberty candidates", as it (correctly) implies that everybody else is anti-liberty.)
another advantage is focused promotion. By having 10 campaign teams all promoting the same event, you dramatically increase the signal-to-noise ratio. Ten times as many people promoting the event, amid 10 times fewer emails promoting other things.
Also, everyone gets to use november 5, an important anniversary for r3volutionaries, and the anniversary of ron paul's first major money bomb success.
Plus, there is potential for synergy. I'm envisioning a single website that shows the number of donations and dollars for the day for each of the 10 candidates, plus overall total number of donations and dollars. Doesn't that sound inspiring? Maybe the candidate who's ahead in total dollars gets to be at the top of the list, further inspiring that candidate's supporters to give big early.
There are some people who will drop $10 or maybe $25 on every candidate just because they're on the list. (i will probably do that.) as a result some candidates are going to get donations from people who would otherwise be ignoring their campaigns. I'm guessing most candidates will get a higher-than-usual number of donations of a lower-than-usual amount. Fortunately, that's a good for press releases, as it shows more widespread support among "ordinary" people. (sorry, not meaning to imply that any of us are ordinary!)
if nov 5 is successful and generates news articles, maybe we'll have a bigger multi-bomb on dec 16. Then maybe we'll have a mini-push for rand on dec 25 to get him over the $2 million mark. Then maybe another on dec 31 to get him over $1 million for the 4th quarter. Who knows?
For now, we need to strongly push the nov 5 event!
This november 5th - million dollar day!